Cover of Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide to Late Capitalist Television

Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide to Late Capitalist Television

by Adam Kotsko · 2012

+ Want to read

Adam Kotsko argues that the popularity of the ruthless sociopath reflects our dissatisfaction with a failed social contract, showing that we believe that the world rewards the evil and uncaring rather than the good.

Subject
psychologypsychologyMore like thisLess of thisphilosophyphilosophyMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of thisself-helpself-helpMore like thisLess of this
Themes
moviesmoviesMore like thisLess of thiseconomicseconomicsMore like thisLess of thismediamediaMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 107 pages
Form
essaysessaysMore like thisLess of this

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

BuyAmazonGoogle Books

BorrowOpen LibraryA library near you

MoreCompare pricesHardcover

Liked Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide to Late Capitalist Television? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide to Late Capitalist Television. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion Paul Bloom · 2016 Shares nonfiction, psychology, philosophy
  2. Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life Adam Phillips · 2012 Shares nonfiction, psychology, philosophy
  3. Slavoj Žižek Tony Myers · 2003 Shares philosophy, nonfiction
  4. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Neil Postman · 1985 Shares nonfiction, culture, psychology
See more recommendations →

“People who read Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide to Late Capitalist Television tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Mark Fisher · 2009
  2. Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say Douglas Rushkoff · 1999
  3. J.G. Ballard · 1984
  4. The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Inquiry into Human Freedom John N. Gray · 2015

“If you want more of the same (psychology about movies), start with these.”

  1. Is Shame Necessary?: New Uses for an Old Tool Jennifer Jacquet · 2015
  2. A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century Cristina Nehring · 2009
  3. A Field Guide to Melancholy Jacky Bowring · 2009
  4. Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origins and Use Noam Chomsky, William Eaton · 1966

“If it was the philosophy that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion Jonathan Haidt · 2012
  2. Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference · 2015
  3. How to Be Bored (The School of Life Book 4) Eva Hoffman, The School of Life
  4. Clash!: 8 Cultural Conflicts That Make Us Who We Are Hazel Rose Markus, Alana Conner · 2013

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Primary Greatness: The 12 Levers of Success Stephen R. Covey · 2015
  2. A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America Bruce Cannon Gibney · 2017
  3. Sixguns and Society: A Structural Study of the Western Will Wright · 1977
  4. Carnival of horrors Philip Preece · 2010

Report a problem